Research Catalog

Title

Women and literature in Britain, 1700-1800 / edited by Vivien Jones.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jones, Vivien, 1952-

Description

xi, 320 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• Women intellectuals > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-310) and index.

Contents

Writings on education and conduct: arguments for female improvement / Kathryn Sutherland -- Eighteenth-century femininity: "a supposed sexual character" / Harriet Guest -- Women and race: "a difference of complexion" / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Women's status as legal and civic subjects: "a worse condition than slavery itself" / Gillian Skinner -- Women in families: the great disinheritance / Ruth Perry -- Women and the business of print / Paula McDowell -- Women readers: a case study / Jon Fergus -- (Re)discovering women's texts / Isobel Grundy -- Women and the rise of the novel: sexual prescripts / Ros Ballaster -- Women poets of the eighteenth century / Margaret Anne Doody -- Women and the theatre / Angela J. Smallwood -- Women and popular culture: gender, cultural dynamics, and popular prints / Diane Dugaw -- Varieties of women's writing / Clare Brant.

Call Number

JFE 01-15618

ISBN

• 0521583470 (hbk.)
• 0521586801 (pbk.)

LCCN

99022555

OCLC

40901231

Title

Women and literature in Britain, 1700-1800 / edited by Vivien Jones.

Imprint

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-310) and index.

Added Author

Jones, Vivien, 1952-

Research Call Number

JFE 01-15618